Multiple Caribbeans:
Performance, Displacement, Identities
International Conference
April 25 - 27, 2002
Union South, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Organized by Guillermina De Ferrari (cluster faculty) is Assistant Professor of Spanish and Portuguese who specializes in contemporary Caribbean narrative and Postcolonial Studies.
The conference invites consideration of the cultural strands from Africa, Europe, Asia and throughout the Americas which contribute to the complex hybridization of the Caribbean and Caribbean diaspora. "Performance, Displacement, and Identities" recognizes that cultures grounded at least partially in a history of colonization and enslavement tend to preserve their memories in performance as much as in witten text; that deportation to, marginalization within, or exile from one's country of residence has been mre widespread in the Caribbean than in many other parts of the world; and that this history of displacement has shpaed the ways in which identites are asserted, defended, and fashioned by the people of the Caribbean through a wide variety of means and expressive forms.
Thursday, April 25
Keynote speaker – John Santos
Friday, April 26
Panel I "Theories of the Caribbean"
Sidney Mintz – John Hopkins University
Juan Flores – Hunter College, CUNY
Lewis Gordon – Brown University
Edouard Glissant – CUNY
Lunch: Keynote Reading, Edouard Glissant
Panel II "No Woman Is an Island: Gender & Society in the Caribbean"
Moderated by Guillermina di Ferrari – Spanish and Portuguese
Jose Quiroga – George Washington University
Ruth Behar – University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Jacqueline Sanchez Taylor – University of Warwick
Panel III "Identity & Nation in the Caribbean"
Moderated by Francisco Scarano – History
J. Michael Dash – NYU
Ada Ferrer – NYU
Edward Baugh– Howard University, UWI
Saturday, April 27
Panel IV "Festivals, Popular Religion & Performance"
Moderated by Max Harris – Wisconsin Humanities Council
Robin Derby – University of Chicago
Milla Riggio – Trinity College
Gerard Aching – NYU
Lunch: Lecture/Performance "The History of Calypso" Hollis 'Chalkdust' Liverpool at Luther's Blues 1401 University Avenue, Madison
Panel V "Identity & Authenticity in Caribbean Music and Dance"
Moderated by Henry Drewal – Art History
Hollis Liverpool – University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
Angel Quintero-Rivera – Universidad de Puerto Rico
Robin Moore – Temple University
Travis Jackson – University of Michigan
Panel VI "Diasporic Expressions: Arts, Culture & Literature in the Caribbean"
Moderated by Aliko Songolo – African Studies/French
Mayra Santos-Febres – Writer, Universidad de Puerto Rico
Agymah Kamau – University of Oklahoma
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